Tuesday, October 4, 2011

This pattern shows lines even closer together than the mansuji ones. Strictly speaking, they're supposed to be one thread thick. Also, this pattern presents horizontal lines that intertwine with the vertical ones.

The name hakeme (刷毛目) means "traces of a brush" thus indicating that the lines are as thin as the traces of a bristle brush.

This pattern, consisting in the repetition of a single line, is called "daimyo stripes" or daimyō-jima (大名縞) in Japanese. The most usual form of this pattern is woven with two colored threads per stripe and six threads for the background.